People still buy books?
I’m in my last semester of grad school, and am proud to say that I haven’t bought a textbook in years.. Since I got ripped off in my first year of university by buying brand new textbooks for bullshit subjects such as marketing and management, and realized that every book has a brand new edition every year (which makes it impossible to sell it after you’re done), I said “That’s all you’ll get from me.”
If you are studying geography, history, philosophy, art and/or any other social science, the libraries are full of old edition textbooks with the exact same material covered. Chances are, they will even contain the same images. So why dish out $150 for a Principles of Macroeconomics textbooks, when these principles haven’t changed (whether that’s good or bad is a different discussion).
Also, why do we have the Internet, if not to get free information (nothing is free, but I won’t get into that either). Everything you need is available online. Ebooks can be easily found for downloads. Plus, Google Books has millions of books scanned – some in full and some with restricted pages.. But then again, don’t pretend like you read every single page anyways..
For example, my Behavioural Econ textbook costs $100, and I found a full scan of it on Google Books. More money to spend on shopping, I guess.
Twitter Backgrounds
So I’m starting to see people putting a lot more effort into their Twitter backgrounds.. And it makes me ashamed of how plain mine is. I’ll have to get on that, pronto.
In the meantime, check out some cool background designs:
Weather Report
Current Weather
Updated: Monday, January 26, 2009, 7:00 CST – Saskatoon Airport
-34 °C
Clear
Feels like: -46
What the hell.
Aaron & Rosie, a beautiful love story.
When Igor and I met online, everybody thought it was totally weird and creepy. Well, recently, I saw some statistics that showed the following: In the last year, over 50% of people dating met online! Crazy.
Anyways, here is a beautiful example of people who met online, and keep romancing each other daily.
Aaron&Rosie are both very talented photographers and digital artists, and they create beautiful photographs and imagery. As you can read for yourself on their blog, Rosie is from England and Aaron is from the US. They see each other regularly, but the rest of the time, they take individual photos and photoshop each other in. Pretty awesome.
Mandy’s birthday extravaganza..
Samurai was alright – not even close to the what it’s made out to be.. The Freehouse was solid, as usual – good times.
Here are some hi-def pictures, since Facebook is limiting..
How to be a virtual hooker
Heard of “Second Life”? How much do you really know about it?
Here’s something you probably didn’t know..
